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Conversations are happening in homes and classrooms across the country following the announcement from Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc that preliminary survey results found the remains of 215 children buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Explaining that Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families and put into residential schools where they were abused and prohibited from speaking their languages or expressing their culture requires both delicacy and honesty, according to experts.
Ted Cadwallader, director
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